magazine

«magazine» in Mova's school dictionary: A thin book with a paper cover, full of stories, articles… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a magazine, magazines)

meaning for a pupil

1) A thin book with a paper cover, full of stories, articles and pictures, that comes out every week or month. tree →

2) A TV or radio programme with many short reports. tree →

3) The part of a gun that holds the bullets. tree →

4) A store for weapons and explosives. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and reading lessons: children's magazines, comics, nature magazines; reading magazines is non-fiction reading. In media lessons: magazines have adverts — not everything in them is true. Phrases: «a weekly/monthly magazine», «a magazine article», «a magazine subscription».

examples

• I read a magazine about animals every month. tree →
• The waiting room had a pile of old magazines. tree →
• My poem was printed in the school magazine. tree →
• She buys a football magazine every week. tree →
• The magazine has a puzzle page. tree →
• Some adverts in magazines make things look better than they are. tree →

note

Countable. Stress at the end in UK English: maga-ZINE; in US English often MAG-a-zine. Short form: mag. A magazine is different from a newspaper (which comes daily or weekly, mostly news).

In the corpora

• Vivid example: in a Leeds corner shop, Auntie Bev holds up a magazine: "SOAP STAR'S SECRET HEARTBREAK!
• And when the law decides a story was a lie, the magazine has to pay.
• Gaming guides, magazines and fact books are real reading too; interest is what keeps a reader going.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «magazine» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.